Wednesday, January 24, 2007

New Zealand/Old Zealand

After two weeks in New Zealand working for Dr Audio, I am back on deck in 'Aussie' (as the Kiwis call it "what's it like in Aussie?"). We were fitting out the Law Courts with new audio systems. I was there with Brother Dan and we had two weeks in Rotorua with a road trip up to Whangarei in the middle. There are so many stories to tell - from the foul and stanky stench of sulfur (turns out that was just Dan) and geothermally heated rivers to the owner of our apartment informing us that he had been taken aboard the mother ship of some aliens in 1977. Where do I begin...with some pics I think!
When you ask for a 'large latte', they don't mess around. They serve it in a bowl!

About half way through the trip we got called up north to Whagarei to help out there. It was about 7 or 8 hours drive. We felt the need for some donuts and for some reason Dan appointed himself Donut Nazi and undertook to pace the consumption of said donuts. If i had my way we would have knocked of those 12 tasty morsels in 30mins. The radio was crap so we ended up listening to music from Dans laptop with Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones. Amazing technology I tell you!

What?


Did I mention they have bowls of Latte?

7 comments:

Steve Chatelier said...

that last one reminds me of the way you used to hand people their fish'n'chips at Olgas Vulgar Fish'n'Chip Shop

Billy said...

Olgas Vulga what?

But thanks for reminding me of that - it was such a defining time in my life....good times

Dboy said...

Or such a defining time in your good times?

Man, looks like you went to your own little version of Disneyland, where Mickey Mouse is really a big-arse bowl of caffeinated goodness :)

Billy said...

Or did the times define the goodness....yeah think about THAT!


Less like Disneyland, more like the coffee shop in Heaven. I wouldn't say Rotorua was like heaven, but the coffeeshop was different.

By the way dboy, what is an 'arse bowl'? are there different sizes of them?

wire said...

man - now i want donuts... donuts and an arse bowl (all my friends have one)

Ludicrousity said...

So did you sleep at all due to the massive ammount of coffee you consumed?

Nice to have you back Billy!

Dr Dan said...

He didnt sleep bacuase I kept pushing him away as he snuggled up to me. Nothing to do with too much coffee. All to do with him thinking I was Rachael!! Very uncool.